Speak New Zild

//Speak New Zild// http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3393/features/4034/watch_your_language.html
New Zealand Language (European and Maori slang)
Some //slang words// can be a bit confusing it's true. http://www.chemistry.co.nz/kiwi.htm
  1. Choose twenty (clean) slang words that you often hear used in New Zealand speech and create a Word Puzzle using //Puzzlemaker// or a grid created in Excel for example. http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Young New Zilders speak an even stranger language than their elders.
  1. Choose ten words that you use in every day speech that may puzzle your teachers and prepare a Glossary for them.
  2. How important is langauge in establishing our identity?
  3. Is it true that Australians (who speak //Strine//) and New Zealanders speak the same language? Why (not)?
Perception Check
Draw a speech bubble for the Kiwi About to Embark on His/Her OE and write a typical Kiwi greeting so that your intrepid Kiwi will have something to say when s/he meets new people.


Tell us some stories or difficulties you may have had in understanding.....